Dear Colleageus,

I am delighted to share with you to the Winter Edition of our IT Services Newsletter. We hope you will find the contents of this edition helpful and interesting. 

Google are making changes in their provision of storage, primarily Google Drive.  Please read our article to learn more about this change and actions you might need to take.

It has been a busy award season for IT Services. Some of our colleagues received their Long Service Award in November and Staff Recognition Awards in December.

With a host of We are UCC on campus events, IT Services organised and were part of some of these events in Semester 1. Events IT Servces were part of include; The Good Practice Symposium, President's Orientation Cafe and Equality Week.  We also ran a series of events for Cyber Security Awareness month and hosted HEAnet in UCC as part of their customer focused in person series of events.

In conversation with Rosie Coffey, Head of Enterprise Solutions, IT Services.

An update from our IT Security team on Cyber Security Awareness month, which took place in October.  We also share 5 tips to help you shop and stay safe online this Christmas.

In the December 2021 edition of our newsletter we shared how IT Services are working towards a Sustainable Future in UCC. In this edition we wanted to share an update on how we continue to work on our sustainability commitments. Including our partnership with Dell Technologies on building more efficient and sustainable digital services, the procurement of 2 ebikes to manage and support both on and off campus locations, responsible recycling with Wisetek and our work on UCC Sustainable Futures with Microsoft.

In this update the Digital Advisroy Centre (DAC) share details of their Learn Live Series, Power Automate and Your Daily Email Briefings.

IT Services have launched the UCC Services Portal to students in Semester 1 2022.